SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...
Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - SACRAMENTO - First it's there. Then it's gone. Then it's back. But not for long. So goes the sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Loretta Lynch sat glumly in the courtroom of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali last week, trying to orchest...
When 2003 began, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had no lawyers in New York City, arguably the co-capital of A...
KINGS COUNTY HANFORD - Just in time to reap the benefits of the holiday bounty, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. has acquir...
Labor/Employment
Right to Privacy Doesn't Cover Intimate Co-Worker Relationship
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Focus Column Employment Law By Dominick C. Capozzola A state Court of Appeal recently upheld the termination of a sales manag...
FORUM A study in the Santa Clara Law Review concludes that California's system is seriously flawed and dangerously unjust. Pa...
By J. Kevin Lilly Lawyers are a lot like other people. When you fire them, they often get angry and frequently sue for wrongf...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arrived like Santa on Christmas Eve for the city of Martinez. In a unan...
FRESNO - An album cover of "Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong" adorns the windowsill in the chambers of Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...
WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...
LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...
Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - One month California's car tax is tripled. Five months later the incre...
Forum Column - By Steven B. Katz - The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has pulled the rug out from under practitioners...
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal laws again...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The Nov. 7 decision in Estate of Stone , T.C. Memo. 2003-309 (Nov. 7, 2003), confir...
SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...
LOS ANGELES-Presiding Justice Roger W. Boren will take over as new administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court ...
LOS ANGELES-Funeral services were held Monday for Michael J. Cullen, a former Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe partner cred...
Personal Injury & Torts
Liberty Mutual Settles Quadriplegic's Lawsuit
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A bitter battle over collecting a $12.8 million insurance judgment awarded to a 28-year-old quadriplegic and his...
SAN FRANCISCO - A group monitoring the Oakland Police Department as part of the Riders civil settlement reported Tuesday that ...
While the state budget crisis has forced courts throughout California to close periodically and send their employees home on u...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul A. Bacigalupo is new to the Los Angeles Superior Court, but he's been presiding over disputes for muc...
SACRAMENTO - Litigation is a slow process, and sometimes the quickest way to accomplish something is to head straight for the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a challenge by a bankers' group to an Oakland ordinance ai...
LOS ANGELES - Tenet Healthcare Corp. has hired E. Peter Urbanowicz as its new general counsel, the embattled hospital operator...